USS Sciota

USS Sciota

USS "Sciota" is a name used more than once by the U.S. Navy:

* USS Sciota (1861), one of the “ninety-day gunboats” rushed through construction at the beginning of the American Civil War.

* USS Sciota (AT-30), laid down on 30 November 1918 at the Navy Yard, Puget Sound, Washington; launched on 11 June 1919; and commissioned on 13 November 1919.

* USS Sciota (ATR-132), an ocean tugboat laid down on 12 October 1944 at the Gulfport Boiler and Welding Works, Port Arthur, Texas; launched on 26 November 1944; and commissioned on 30 January 1945.

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